Secret courts threaten the old principle of open justice.
Archive for Will Fitzgibbon
Experts urge government to protect freedom of information law

Experts fear restrictions to freedom of information laws.
Going undercover on land and on the seas

Did BBC Panorama and Channel 4 Dispatches need to go undercover?
Leaked emails warned G4S over Iraq murders

G4S was warned about an unstable employee days before he killed two colleagues in Iraq.
Schools fleeced by IT scammers

BBC’s Panorama investigates IT scams leaving schools with million-pound debts.
Scores of British MPs and superstars linked to offshore tax havens

68 MPs and Peers have business links to tax havens.
‘Archaic’ and ‘unaccountable’ coroners system gets a new boss

The Today Programme asks whether the first ever Chief Coroner can live up to the hype.
Analysis: The new health secretary and the £650m private healthcare takeover

Clues point to what sort of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will be.
Analysis Where are all the US Paralympic golds?

US Paralympic Team fails to equal Olympic counterpart in medal tally.
NHS PFI firms avoid millions in tax

A report reveals that NHS finance firms pay fees into tax havens.
Report and be damned: an American whistleblower’s story

August has been a busy month for whistleblowers in the United States.
Rolling in it: The MPs making six-figure sums outside parliament

Which well-known backbench MP made nearly £1m last year?
US government buys technology to spy on employees

American Federal agencies spend big on monitoring employees’ personal communications.
Operation Flex: the most incompetent FBI sting ever?

This American Life reveals how the FBI ‘thwarts’ domestic terror attempts.
How to rescue Britain’s scandal-hit banks

BBC’s Radio 4 explores the British banking crisis and suggests ways to fix it.
Blood on the racetrack: gangs and corruption in racing

Money laundering and race fixing dog the ‘king of sports’.
Global surveillance industry gets a new toy

The rapid rise of Palantir, the newest darling of the global intelligence industry.
Five years on from Baby P, abuse is still killing babies

An NSPCC report reveals that, five years on from Baby P, 20 babies are still killed every year
New Zealand looks to keep a register of judges’ finances

Will New Zealand’s move to transparency spread to the UK?
Media, police and justice

A public debate disusses the merits but lack of investigative journalism.










